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Amid rumours that Ford, Fisher and Hamill will return, Kevin Maher argues that the secretive JJ Abrams is the perfect man to take Star Wars back to the future. Click on the tab above the picture to take our Star Wars quiz

Last December the 46-year-old JJ Abrams, creator of the cult TV series Lost,
was asked about the breaking news that another Star Wars movie was on
the way. What did he know about it? Would he be directing the movie? “I am
looking forward to the next iterations of Star Wars,” he said. “But I
will be going as a paying moviegoer.”

Within less than a month, Kathleen Kennedy of Lucasfilm, the Star Wars
production house that had been bought by Disney for £2.6 billion, announced
that the director of the new Star Wars movie, Episode VII, to be
released